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The world's richest man will now face questioning from Twitter's lawyers on Oct. 6 and 7 in Wilmington, Delaware. The two parties are slated for a legal showdown beginning Oct. 17.

The Kremlin has spread disinformation through social media prompting Meta to launch an investigation.

Elon Musk will face up to three days of questions from Twitter's lawyers in a deposition ahead of his October 17 trial this week. Twitter seeks to force him to buy the company.

Amid protests against the death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian officials have cut off the public's access to mobile internet and social media websites like Instagram and Facebook.

The Treasury Department said it will allow American tech companies to expand business in Iran to help citizens despite U.S. sanctions.

Conservative children's book publisher Brave Books says Facebook suspended its advertising account on Thursday with no explanation and denied its appeal.

A top Meta executive said former President Donald Trump's Facebook account could be reinstated in January, when his current ban is set to expire.

Yonutz brand ambassador and TikTok star Angelo Bahu says 'Shark Tank's' Kevin Harrington's investment in the dessert shop has made the family-run business' expansion "easier and quicker."

Shorts-focused creators will be eligible to apply to YouTube's Partner Program in early 2023 by meeting a threshold of 1,000 subscribers and 10 million Shorts views over 90 days.

Twitter is suing billionaire Elon Musk in the Delaware Court of Chancery in an effort to force the world's richest man to follow through on his $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant.

Zuckerberg ranks 20th among global billionaires with a net worth of $55 billion – his lowest ranking since 2014, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index.

Google accidentally sent a security engineer named Sam Curry a payment of nearly $250,000 a few weeks ago, the engineer said in a Sept. 13 tweet.

YouTube, Meta and other tech giants have pledged to take steps toward fighting online extremism as a part of a White House Initiative on hate-motivated violence.

Musk's countersuit claims that Twitter breached its obligations under his $44 billion acquisition agreement by misrepresenting the total number of spam and fake accounts on its platform.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that he had signed a landmark bill requiring social media companies to be transparent on certain policies, including hate speech.

Current and former executives from Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and others will address social media national security concerns at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.